Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Talking of unusual road signs, there is a nice one at Culzean Castle
    Visitor Centre, near Ayr.
    
    
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    Ian.

    re: .0
    
    I notice he only talks about men who misspelled signs.
    
    Does that mean all the women spell correctly?
    
    --bonnie

    My favorite misspellings can be found in produce stores, where you
    are informed of such as
    
                           BANANA'S
    
                            ONION'S
    
    and the like.
    
    But my top joy was the Acton, Massachusetts, Donelan's supermarket,
    which periodically offered for sale
    
                           SCULLIONS
    
    Forsooth!
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    That's the way I pronounce it. But then I say, "ovalcado."
    
    	Jon

    That's not so surprising.  After all, they are rather oval.
    
    What would be surprising is if you called them "squarecados".
    
    Of course you can get around the problem entirely by calling
    them the name I learned from my grandmother:  alligator pears.
    
    --bonnie

    
    As I recall, there was a sign announcing some event to benefit the
    ORFUNS around Christmas time here in Atlanta.

    Ah! Sort of like the Chinese gooseberry, otherwise known as the kiwi
    fruit. 
    
    	Jon

    otherwise known as eggplant.
    
    --bonnie

    A tastier sign was a protest picket down South years ago, saying
    
                            GOVERMINT
                          LEAVE US ALONE                      
    It was shown in a news photo.
    
    I wonder whether one could make Govermint Juleps.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    What is a scullion when it's spelt/spelled creckly?
    
    Jeff.

    A correctly spelled scullion is a scallion, known as a "green
    onion" on the other side of the pond.
    
    They look something like very slender leeks.
                        
    					andrew

    re .10 (Jeff):
    
    >What is a scullion when it's spelt/spelled creckly?
    
    The prooblem is that "scullion" _is_ a correct spelling.  Just not
    for produce.
    
    Re .11 (Andrew):
    
    >They look something like very slender leeks.
    
    Some decades ago, there used to be a lot of home/housework shows
    broasdcast over radio, including a number involving cooring.
    
    One woman lost her audience by starting her instructions for a soup
    recipe:
    
    "First, you take a leek ...."
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    Re .6:

>   As I recall, there was a sign announcing some event to benefit the
>   ORFUNS around Christmas time here in Atlanta.

    Are you sure that the typo was not deliberate?  Maybe the organizers
    of the event wished to imply that the proceeds were going to the poor 
    orphans, whereas in reality they were destined to end up in Our_Funds.

    �One woman lost her audience by starting her instructions for a soup
    recipe:
    
    "First, you take a leek ...."�
    
    Maybe she lost them because none of them had a pot to piss in...
    
    --- jerry

    "Slender leeks" sound like spring onions to me.
    
    Jeff.

    I have always assumed that scallions and spring onions were the
    same thing.

    Scallions = spring onions = shallots = echallots 
    
    Roger

    > spring onions = shallots
    
    No, no!  Spring onions have a white base, very slightly bulbous,
    with long green hollow leaves.  They are eaten raw with salads -
    never cooked.  Shallots look like small onions, have a distinctive
    flavour and are delicious when pickled.
    
    Jeff.

    And where do Welsh onions fit in? They come from seeds sold in packets
    different from chive seeds, but they look and taste remarkably similar.
    
    b

    And while we're not on the subject, why is it that when I see
    "truffles" on a menu, sometimes I get mushrooms and sometimes I
    get chocolates????????????
    
    --bonnie

    Re .20 (Bonnie):
    
    Price ought to give you a clue.  Unless the chocolate is _highly_
    overpriced.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    re: .21
    
    Well, I assumed the truffles on the dessert menu were chocolate
    and the ones in the veal were the mushroom kind, but the prices
    at this restaurant were so high that they weren't much of a guide.
    
    --bonnie

What's with "spring onions"?  Must be some kind of U.K.ism. |<)  Everyone knows 
that they are really "green onions".

Larry

    re -1
    
    Dare I say, especially in Welwyn?
    
    :-)

    How can it be green in Welwyn, when you have 24-hour sunshine?
    
    Jeff :-)
    
    PS: To read about the joke which is Welwyn, see RDGCSS::GREAT_BRITAIN

    Sounds as though their prices were nothing to be truffled with!!!